Oct 14, 2024
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found the biggest bookstore in Harbin! making new friends: "can you read that??" "very slowly, with a dictionary"
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12. Would you take part in re-enactment? In what era and as whom?Probably. Yes. Definitely. This isn’t something I’ve really considered in a long while, but when I was a kid I lived in an area that was just dripping with stuff from the second half of the 19th century, and there was this rather significant house that had a living history day, and I was the obnoxious kid that wanted to know EVERYTHING. There was this one lady who usually played a maid, but would also sometimes be the tour guide (in modern dress) and occasionally played the Lady of the house, and she was very knowledgable and approachable and I kind of wanted to be her when I grew up.
If the area I live in now had much in the way of historical re-enactments, I would be ALL FOR Victorian, Renaissance, or Anglo-Saxon England stuff.
17. What particular historical item would you like to own?MORE BOOKS! Any object picks up memories and connotations along the way, and the older something is the more there is too it, but this is especially true for books. People interact with books very directly, and so when you read a previously read book, you pick up something of the previous reader (or a lot of the previous reader, in the case of prolific marginalia-ers [is there a noun for one who writes marginalia? there needs to be]) and there’s nothing quite like reading a good book that has been well read by multiple generations. I have a few volumes like this, and I could do with a few hundred more.I would really really like to own a book that has been read by one of my favourite dead authors, but those things are prohibitively expensive.
26. What is your favourite historical “What if…” scenario?What if the English had trounced the Normans in 1066? This is as much a linguistic question as historical one, but everything about Western Civilization would be different. I don’t think English could possibly have become the Lingua Franca it is today if it didn’t hadn’t been fused with a Romance Language way back in the day.
Ask me history questions
I love being multifandom because I can blog about books so much more and books books books are everything I love books I've always loved books and I never liked TV shows until the past few years Idk I just really love books
in the past 3 hours, i just purchased 8 books.
6 at Ollie's and 2 on Amazon.
nope, hate books.... hate'em...
Readdiiiinngggg!:)
It’s so much fun reading to you, and I hope you’re sleeping great! :) I don’t know when you fell asleep, but we finished the first book of Christy Miller!!! I really loved it, and I can’t wait to start on the next one. c: I would send you a goodnight text, but the phone is probably on your face and I don’t want to make your entire head vibrate while you’re sleeping. ❤
Goodnight, Shannon Kathleen, and I’ll talk to you in the morning. 💙
Sooo, does anyone else have a Goodreads account?
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